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Alien Priories

Alien Priories

alien priories

(alien priories) Former religious houses in England owned or controlled by foreigners; confiscated during the French War of 1415. Thus, the public park in South London now called Tooting Bec Common formed part of the lands of the Abbey of Bec, Normandy.

Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Alien Priories

are cells belonging to foreign religious houses in England. They were dissolved by stat. 2 Henry V. One of the most perfect is that of Wilmington, Sussex.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature